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M. Ashraf Adeel’s
philosophical interests include contemporary philosophy of language and
science as well as modern Islamic thought. His book on language and
underdetermination in Quine and Davidson has recently been published under
the title: How Do We Deal With Different World Views If They Are Based On
The Same Evidence: The Philosophical Problem of Underdetermination in Quine
and Davidson. The book is a sustained defense of underdetermination and
possibility of alternative conceptual schemes or world views both in science
and in general.
He has recently
published such articles as “Modernity and Muslims: A Selective Retrieval”
(2011) and “Diversity and Exclusivity: A Religion Needs Both,” (2009) in
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, and “Islamic Ethics and the
Controversy about the Moral Heart of Confucianism,” in Dao: A Journal of
Comparative Philosophy, 2008. He is particularly interested in pluralism
(religious, epistemic, and that of conceptual schemes), traditions and
modernity, and Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Some of his earlier work
includes “Faith, Violence, and Our Integral Humanity: An Ecological
Perspective,” American Philosophical Association Newsletters, Newsletter
on International Cooperation, 2005, “Tarski’s Theory of Truth and
Davidson’s Semantics,” The Journal of Humanities and Social
Sciences, 1994, and “Language and Translatability” Tarski versus
Davidson,”
International Philosophical
Quarterly,
1991. "Kripke's
Wittgenstein's View of Language as a Social Practice" (1990, Journal of
Law and Society); "Kierkegaard and the Paradox"(1990,
Pakistan, Journal of the Pakistan
Study Centre, Peshawar);
"Wittgenstein's Skeptical Paradox and Quine's
Thesis of Underdetermination: A Parallel" (1989, Pakistan Philosophical
Journal).
He was a senior visiting fellow at Linacre College Oxford in 1999,
is the past President of the Pakistan Philosophical Congress (2001-2003),
and founding Vice-Chancellor of Hazara University (2001-2002).
Adeel teaches symbolic logic, introduction to critical thinking,
introduction to logic, philosophy of language, history of scientific ideas,
American philosophy, interpretations of the Quran, and modern philosophy.
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